California Institute of Technology Cal Tech - Big T Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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FACULTY gt, :3 Dr. lady and D13 RObEW Millikan 1 ! g; 5' PROFESSOR C. K. JUDY came to the Institute as its only teacher of English in 1909 when Tech engineers were still rough and ready and not much else. Since then there has grown un- der his direction the present excellent Humanities Division, which has the sometimes difficult task of broaden- ing and civilizing in only four years the often uncouth freshmen. PRO- FESSOR JUDY believes that taste can be improved by education, and this he attempts by making no compro- mise With vulgarity and by stirring in his students some of his own en- thusiasm for good literature and sound thought. BECAUSE the nineteenth century spirit of materialism maneuvered science into an untenable position, physics has been for the last few years in active retreat from its previous philo- 16 sophical beliefs which involved strict determinism and complete exclusion of religion. DR. R. A. MILLIKAN is the leader of many physicists who have used the uncertainties of mod- ern physics to oppose this narrow agnosticism of the past. His position is that since science can deal only with the material--and that none too successfullyeit has no right to de- liver dicta on subjects beyond the reach of its method. Deterrninisrn is dead, says DR. MILLIKAN, and its death clears the way toward the founding of beliefs which will not subordinate the spiritual side of man to sterile and hopeless materialism. WHEN PROFESSOR ROYAL SORENSON assumed direction of the Electrical Engineering Department in 1910 he intended to remain at the Institute for only five years, but he has stayed

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another, almost every undergraduate on the campus, and although freshe men resent having anything done for their own good, in their maturer years they usually appreciate the assistance. After his own undergraduate days at the University of Manitoba DR. MACARTHUR taught English Literature and Languages at several schools, and he was for a time a social worker on Ellis Island. When he came to the Institute as. the third member of the Humanities Division he organized the campus chapter of Pi Kappa Delta, the hon- orary debating fraternity of which he was once national president. De- spite the cares for his freshmen and the prospective Ph.D. candidates to whom he teaches German and French, DR. MACARTHUR has a rare deans gaiety and a highly refined satirical wit. DEAN FREDERIC HINRICHS, 111., served in the army after his gradua- tion from West Point until he retired to accept a teaching position at the University of Rochester. When he had finished his war services in the Ordinance Department, he came to the Institute as assistant professor of mechanical engineering. He was soon made full professor and dean of upper classmen, and he intends to hold those positions as long as both he and the students benefit from their mutual association. DEAN HIN- RJCHS has earned the sincere regard of those who meet him either as teacher, dean, or helpful chairman of the Student Aid Committee. 15 FACULTY Dean Macartbur Dean Him'iclax

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ever since, because as he says, there have always been important problems here to be solved. In addition to his teaching and the solution of such problems as the design of a trans- former set to deliver a current at a million volts for a long period of time, and the development of a sys- tem to protect oil tanks from light- ning, he has been consulting engineer for numerous organizations including the Metropolitan Water District. PROFESSOR SORENSON personally solicited the money to hire Techs first football coach, and he has long been chairman of the physical educa- tion committee. Recently he was in- strumental in bringing the student CWA t0 the campus, and he has di- rected the work of helping impecu- nious students. T HE history lectures of DOCTOR WILLIAM BENNETT MUNRO, espe- cially when the lecturer digresses from his announced subject, always hold his students' interest. PRO- FESSOR MUNRO likes to allow his hearers to form a hackneyed and unsound opinion and then to demol- ish it with all his witty learning and experience. His humor is some- times slightly satirical, and his store of anecdotes is immense. DR. MUNRO knows history thoroughly for he has written several authoritative texts and was head of the Harvard history school before coming to Tech. His experience has been broad. Besides being a major in the army during the war, DR. MUNRO has been chairman of the municipal affairs committee of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and the chairman of the board of a large bank. PROFESSOR ARTHUR A. NOYEs, direc- tor of the Gates Laboratory of Chem- istry, has gained another title of distinctioneiiThe King . It is a very private title, entirely unknown to the public and never used by the students. It was bestowed upon him out of re- spect by his fellow professors here and at M. I. T. In history book fash- ion DR. NOYES has also been given the title of father of Americas phys- ical chemistryn because of his sixteen years as director of the Research Lab- 17 FACULTY Dr. William B. Munro